Maryland State Police are investigating a deadly motorcycle crash that killed one person in Baltimore County Sunday morning.

Around 1:30am an orange Kawasaki motorcycle was speeding south on I-83 near Old Pimlico Road just before it rear-ended a 2012 Mazda 6.

The driver of the motorcycle, Marcell Donnell Smith, 32 of Baltimore was thrown and landed in the grass on the opposite side of the guard rail. Medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene.

Smith's body was taken to the medical examiner's office for an autopsy to determine whether alcohol or drugs were a factor in the crash.

The driver of the Mazda was not injured.